ORDER

The petitioner has approached this Court for a commendable cause. The prayer made in the writ petition is, that there should be a definite mobile phone subscriber verification scheme, to ensure 100% verification of the subscriber. It is the prayer of the petitioner, that the identity of each subscriber, as also, his/her address should be verified, so that no fake or unverified phone subscriber, can misuse a mobile phone. It was the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner, that the instant prayer is imperative, as mobile phones are, used not only for domestic criminal activity, but also, for known terrorist activity (sometimes with foreign involvement).

2. Consequent upon notice being issued to the Union of India, a short counter affidavit has been filed on its behalf, wherein, it is averred as under:

"22. That however, the department has launched `Aadhaar based E-KYC for issuing mobile connections' on 16th August, 2016 wherein the customer as well as Point of Sale (PoS) Agent of the TSP will be authenticated from Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) based on their biometrics and their demographic data received from UIDAI is stored in the database of TSP